> ok, I have an old 9500 I bought from an old roomate for $20 for use
> as a file server here at the house since my G3 is going to my new
> office(yay) and my powerbook doesn't have a very big drive on it, yet
> I still want access to all my mp3s, work stuff etc. I also plan on
> turning all my CDs into mp3s so I can access them on the laptop or
> out in the living room some time in the future when I put a lil
> 'puter out there for that purpose. I'm also using it to store my old
> work, digital photos and what have you.
>
> But the computer seems to like to freeze at random some times, but
> will always freeze when I'm sending files to it from another machine.
> it's very frustrating... here's the computer's vital stats and tid
> bits that may help diagnose the problem.
>
> it's a 9500/132 which has a 604ev/250MHz processor from a Supermac
> s900. 384Megs RAM, two 128meg DIMMS in slots A1 and B1, two 64meg
> DIMMS in slots A2 and B2. 200meg IBM SCSI HD for the system(yanked
> the origional 1gig quantum because it had some problems) twin 120gig
> IBM ATA/100 HDs set up as a RAID-0. VST ATA/66 duel channel PCI card
> in the top slot, IxMicro TwinTurbo 128 8meg from a G3 in the 4th slot
> down, and an Apple 10/100 Ethernet card from a G3 in the bottom slot.
> The computer is running OS 8.6 stripped down to the basics, the only
> non apple extention is for SoftRAID.
>
I thought that the 604ev would only work in the 8600/9600 series Macs.
Maybe you need to try a 604e card instead.
Brian Futrell
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